Description

MINEHEAD

SS9745 CHURCH STREET, Alcombe
900-1/4/131 (East side)
28/10/76 The Old Presbytery, Corner Cottage
and rear walls to The Old Presbytery
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET, Alcombe
(East side)
St Austell House, The Old
Presbytery, Corner Cottage and
Manoah)

GV II

2 cottages, probably formerly one older house. C18 with early
C19 alteration and fenestration. Painted render over
rubblestone, crested plain tile roof with exposed rafter ends,
hipped with a gablet to the right, brick stacks to gable ends,
left front slope and right eaves. Double-depth plan.
2 storeys; 4-window range. Corner Cottage occupies the range
to the right with entrances to the front and right return. C20
two-light casement windows. The Presbytery is a virtually
symmetrical 3-window range to Church Street with a tiled
lean-to porch to the centre. 2-light casement windows to first
floor, C19 two-light casement window to left of front door and
a C20 window to the right. The rear is 3 storeys with three
3/6-pane sash windows to the second floor, 6/6-pane sashes to
the first floor over a C19 tall 3-light window of 4 vertical
panes to each leaf below to the right.
INTERIOR: a through passage and a studded wall to the left of
it (now covered) indicate that this was probably formerly a
3-unit-plan house. The C19 three-light window to the ground
floor has panelled shutters; a C18 staircase with fretted ends
and traces of former stick balusters remain.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached high rubblestone walls approx
40m long to each side of the tapered rear garden terminate at
a rubblestone outhouse approx 3m x 3.5m.

Listing NGR: SS9763545127

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502156

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Recommended Books

• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)